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Conservatives know that when the American Left wants us to “have a conversation” about an issue, it means they get to talk incessantly until we...
Two days after the election, a federal court in Texas ruled against President Joe Biden’s latest unauthorized scheme to subvert immigration law:...
There were 959 carjackings in Washington, D.C., last year—up from 148 in 2018. Shoplifting is so bad that stores in some neighborhoods have closed....
This is the last BorderLine column before the election. I am often asked what would change on border and immigration policy under a Kamala Harris or a...
In the United States today, there are over 660,000 illegal aliens with pending criminal charges for crimes other than just crossing the border...
Immigration is a top issue for voters. Unfortunately, the real picture is obscured by several zombie lies—false narratives that are kept alive for...
Last week, I went to Springfield, Ohio, to see for myself this town that has symbolized the raging debate about mass illegal migration, which remains...
Editor’s note: This commentary originally was published in September 2023. Federal spending is hard enough to keep track of at the best of times,...
Welcome to the 52nd edition of “The BorderLine”! For the past year, every week, I have tried to capture the unprecedented nature of the...
Back in February, the Senate voted down a supposedly “bipartisan” and “compromise” border bill co-sponsored by Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla.,...
Last week, I looked at the effects of the Biden-Harris administration’s border policy on crime and jobs. This week, I want to look at its...
Conservative commentator Matt Walsh’s movie “Am I Racist” is a hybrid of mockumentary in the tradition of “Spinal Tap” and his signature...
To sum up the Biden-Harris administration’s border policies in a phrase, I’d say “America Last.” Over nearly four years, we have seen the...
In the run-up to November’s election, Vice President Kamala Harris is attempting to rewrite history and absolve herself of her administration’s...
Nothing illustrates the grave price of the Biden-Harris administration’s immigration policy like the preventable crimes that occur with dismaying...
In June, I wrote about “parole-in-place” for alien spouses when the Biden administration first announced this latest in its series of gimmicks...
All repressive and authoritarian regimes, from Caracas to Pyongyang, suppress speech. Rulers like Russia’s Vladimir Putin or China’s Xi Jinping...
En route to a recent vacation to New England, I stopped in my old hometown of Princeton, N.J., for coffee and picked up a copy of the Town Topics, the...
In July, the Biden-Harris administration extended and “redesignated” something called Temporary Protected Status for Somalis who are present in...
Twenty-five years ago, I went to India as a newly minted Foreign Service officer. After three months of Hindi language training, I was interviewing up...
Everyone my parents’ age remembers where they were when President John F. Kennedy was shot. Their parents remember where they were when imperial...
Most countries allow only their own citizens to vote in national elections and require voters to prove their eligibility to vote through photo...
On this Independence Day, let’s acknowledge the exceptional existence of these United States of America. I came to America in 1975. Attending first...
Key Points You Need to Know: During the recent presidential debate, President Joe Biden claimed that illegal border crossings had decreased by 40...
The one poker rule I taught my kids was: “Don’t cry when you lose, don’t gloat when you win.” Ideally, this would apply to our court system,...
Earlier this week, I explained “parole in place,” President Joe Biden’s latest attempt to grant a back-door amnesty. Biden isn’t the first...
Former Assistant FBI Director Chris Swecker reacts to testimony from Merrick Garland on terrorism threat concerns and the Hunter Biden investigation...
Tuesday afternoon, President Joe Biden announced his latest unauthorized attempt to grant a back-door amnesty to half a million or more people living...
The recent elections for the European Union Parliament showed significant wins for conservative parties in several countries—as some of us had...
There’s been a lot of talk about the “rule of law” in the wake of the recent verdict in Manhattan against former President Donald Trump....
Joe Biden announced his highly anticipated executive order to supposedly secure the border on Tuesday. With it, the president attempted to do the...
While The Heritage Foundation’s border and immigration center continues to shine a light on the disastrous and unprecedented realities of the border...
Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., on how the ongoing border crisis has resulted in increased migration from across the world. In March, a Chinese man wandered...
This is the last in my series on “Three Reasons the Left Wants Open Borders.” I’ve covered ideology and electoral politics; now, let’s turn to...
Editor’s note: This week, we will be taking a brief break from Simon Hankinson’s originally scheduled Part 3 of his series on the three...
Why does the Biden administration want open borders so badly? For three very big reasons. One is ideology, which I covered in last week’s...
Why does the Biden administration want open borders? As a researcher and writer on immigration, that’s the question I often get asked. Here are the...
After nearly two years of legal and political challenges, Britain’s parliament has finally passed a law confirming that Rwanda is a safe place to...
In a Home Depot parking lot near San Diego, California, last month, five Haitian men were waiting for under-the-table work at six in the morning....
Even to those of us living in the Washington swamp, the process of making laws is confusing. Worst of all is the appropriations process, where the...
In his latest book, “The Last Best Hope,” political risk analyst John Hulsman offers a succinct, understandable guide to uniting the disparate...
The federal government increasingly looks like an Ivy League classroom, combining therapy for fragile souls with indoctrination into specious...
A mob of over 300 illegal aliens assaulted National Guard soldiers and stormed their way into Texas last month. White House spokeswoman Karine...
Over the past 18 months, The Daily Signal’s Virginia Allen and I have visited the border from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. What we saw...
There’s an old saying attributed to Abraham Lincoln: “You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time. But...
Haiti, a Maryland-sized country sharing half the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic, won independence from France in 1804 and since then...
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Jen Psaki mocked Virginia Republican voters who have concerns about the border while covering Super Tuesday results. In his...
According to a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement official, ICE asked police in Montgomery County, Maryland, 119 times this year to detain and...
By hinting that he will use executive power to crack down on mass illegal immigration for the first time in his administration, President Joe Biden is...